December 3, 2024 article from Science.

By using the names of real scientists but providing fake email addresses, nearly 22 papers were found to contain fake peer reviews.

Elsevier has since retracted the papers, as the Editors-in-Chief have lost confidence in the validity of the articles.

“All 22 of the STOTEN retraction notices say the reviewers’ names and fictitious contact details had been submitted by ecotoxicologist Guilherme Malafaia of the Goiano Federal Institute in Brazil, who was a corresponding author on 21 of the papers and a co-author on one.”